Here are some excerpts from a speech Mark Steyn made in late April at a Hillsdale College seminar. The topic is some things Americans have lost: One is equality before the law, something absolutely essential to a free society. In … Continue reading →
It’s been over a half year since the 2020 election. The left, the Democrats, the MSM, and the powers of social media have all long ago declared the subject of whether there was fraud in the votes and/or vote-counting over … Continue reading →
Because Democrats think primarily in terms of identity politics, they often assume that certain ethnic groups belong to them and vote monolithically. Black people have been voting overwhelmingly Democrat for many decades, and although Hispanic voters aren’t quite as one-party … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Griffin.”] Andrew Sullivan is one of those writers of whom you can say that when he’s good, he’s very very good, and when he’s bad he’s horrid. In this essay he’s good: And that is the only … Continue reading →
Today I noticed this headdline at Hot Air: “The media’s lab leak debacle shows why banning ‘misinformation’ is a bad idea.” No, it most assuredly does not show that, although banning misinformation is indeed a bad idea because misinformation is … Continue reading →
If you’re of a certain age, like I am, you probably remember those bumper stickers that exhorted us all to Question Authority. It was the mark of a thinking person not to take everything at face value, in particular the … Continue reading →
We started hearing reports during the Obama years of a switchover in terms of ideology in the military. Here’s an article about it (written some years later, but I recall hearing about it at the time, too): …[T]he Army that … Continue reading →
Can the GOP win in California? I very much doubt it. But if they ever are to do so, I agree that this would be the right approach: [In California] Prop 47 downgraded many felonies to misdemeanors and then freed … Continue reading →
Here’s another excerpt (you can find an earlier one here) from Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler, his 1930s description of what it was like to watch the Nazi takeover of Germany: Many journals and newspapers disappeared from the kiosks – but … Continue reading →
This is why (it’s premium content, so you probably won’t be able to read the whole thing, but a big chunk of it can be found here): Twitter’s stock fell 15 percent last week apparently because they’re not getting sufficient … Continue reading →
I recommend reading this article by Myron Magnet, which is a summary of how we got where we are today in terms of the loss of autonomy and the growth of federal control, as well as the extreme change in … Continue reading →
That’s a question I’ve asked myself for quite some time. I’m not talking about leftists; I’m talking about so many people I know who are not especially into politics; you might call them leftist-enablers. They tend to read the NY … Continue reading →